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by garmaine 6y ago
This is true, although it is probably because of the software being built into the trackpad itself.
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by garmaine 6y ago
Why do you want to be outraged?
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by garmaine 6y ago
He's just saying the high cost acts as an inbound filter.
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by garmaine 6y ago
What hardware is still manufactured here?
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by garmaine 6y ago
It would die if the rich people leave. Which is a concern, given the hostile policies of California and the changes brought by COVID. If there was a Shelling point for where these people would go, I think we would be seeing the decline of S
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by garmaine 6y ago
I grew up in Silicon Valley. That could just as easily describe the 90’s. Has it really changed?
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by garmaine 6y ago
I know! I used to be a government contractor. I was rather pointing out that the failure mode in question only arises when budget is the deciding issue between proposals. A proper procurement process decides based on delivered value, howeve
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by garmaine 6y ago
Thanks for offering your experience. That matches with my own as well, albeit from the other side. I worked for a large government contractor on our bid, and we knew we weren't going to have the cheapest option but rather banked on the
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by garmaine 6y ago
That's not a problem with fixed price contracts so much as selecting the lowest bidder. An agency which is allowed to pick the more expensive contract that is justifiably better usually won't succumb to these problems.
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by garmaine 6y ago
Not similar, same. John Fry went to school at Santa Clara University, and brought the family franchise supermarket store to the Bay Area, then localized it. At some point selling electronic parts in Silicon Valley was more profitable than s
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by garmaine 6y ago
Presumed by whom? AFAICT there is no reason to presume the protection decays rapidly or even at all (on short timescales). There isn’t a biomechanism that would cause that. It’s a conservative operating assumption just in case, but actually
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by garmaine 6y ago
Japan does NOT have strict lockdowns in place. I know, I work for a Japanese company. Heck they've been giving out travel vouchers for free travel around the country. Not a model for pandemic response at all. Australia is hardly isolat
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by garmaine 6y ago
With both travel restrictions and lockdown, It takes about 6 weeks to get to (effectively) zero new cases. Not forever.
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by garmaine 6y ago
> Since we're on the topic, shouldn't this (hospital admissions) be the almost singular criterion to influence public policy / restrictive measures? No. This is the "flatten the curve" logic which was a horrible
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by garmaine 6y ago
You ever watched CSI or Criminal Minds?
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by garmaine 6y ago
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311113/
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by garmaine 6y ago
The British empire is still Viking-levels of awesome among people who like naval stories (e.g. Patrick O'Brian) or the late-19th, early-20th century era of exploration. It's just that the atrocities that come with empire building
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by garmaine 6y ago
The simplest answer is that a bot at twitter initiated the ban, the the low-paid worker who managed the appeal didn't have enough of a grasp of academic English and/or catholic theology to understand that the tweet in question was
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by garmaine 6y ago
Content moderation at scale is hard.
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by garmaine 6y ago
Most of a wind turbine is concrete and fiberglass, which doesn’t recycle very well.
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by garmaine 6y ago
To be fair, Lockheed's logo is also iconic. So much so that it was used as the logo for Stark industries in Ironman.
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by garmaine 6y ago
Because one NASA Administrator in the 90's f---'ing hated the worm with a passion. That's seriously all there is to it. I worked at NASA about 10 years ago, before the worm revival. The logo was still visible on older equipm
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by garmaine 6y ago
The worm logo is taught in design school. Like the FedEx arrow, it has become a textbook example of classic design. It also harkens back to the UI elements of Star Trek: The Next Generation, which is a very positive link for the NASA brand
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by garmaine 6y ago
Adding another comment since the edit window on my sibling reply has elapsed. To be clear, I'm an IT professional who knows how to restore a device from boot media. I once managed a university computer lab, and wrote the linux-based im
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by garmaine 6y ago
No that’s not what I mean. I bricked the device. I’m not saying I wiped the hard disk and just can’t boot. I’m saying I put the machine in a state where it would NEVER AGAIN boot. Completely unrecoverable.
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by garmaine 6y ago
I bricked my first TouchBar MacBook the day I received it, trying to do a factory reset as my company's security policies demanded. Not sure exactly how I triggered that state. Thankfully Apple took it back as a return. It should not b
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by garmaine 6y ago
That generates an email, which you then have to send via MX records in the domain name system. Which pushes the "human-meaningful" part of the Zooko triangle onto another system. Now we're not having a conversation about git,
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by garmaine 6y ago
I’m not sure you can achieve the same thing without some sort of external name/trust system, which is entirely the point.
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by garmaine 6y ago
Git doesn’t have pull requests.
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by garmaine 6y ago
Yeah... ADHD alarms are blaring right now. Worth getting yourself checked.

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